Builder on trial for stabbing murder

David Nunney suffered a fatal stab wound through his right lung and liver

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A BUILDER from Shepperton has gone on trial accused of murdering a man outside a block of flats in London.

Christopher Small, 48, of The Outlook, Towpath, repeatedly stabbed and then stamped on 44-year-old David Nunney in a cocaine-fuelled late-night row, the prosecution claims.

The Old Bailey heard on Monday that Mr Nunney was attacked on the night of April 26 at Roger Stone Court, Coombe Road, Neasden, north-west London.

He and Mr Small, who had mutual friends, had been out drinking separately that evening, the court was told.

Jurors heard that the victim went to the estate at about 11.20pm because he thought one of his friends was at a flat shared by Mr Small and his partner.

Timothy Cray, prosecuting, said: “It may well be that Mr Nunney was making something of a nuisance of himself.

“This defendant reacted in a wholly different way. He left the flat where he was staying and met David Nunney in the car park outside.”

Mr Cray said the defendant had armed himself with an eight-inch kitchen knife, which he then used in “an attack that was both brutal and lethal”.

Self defence claim

“He took the argument as cause to… stab David Nunney to death,” the prosecutor added.

Witnesses described seeing a stocky man, said to have been Mr Small, raining down what they thought were punches on a more slender man – named as Mr Nunney – before he collapsed to the ground bleeding heavily.

Mr Small, who was seen washing blood from his body afterwards, later told police he had felt threatened, jurors were told.

Mr Cray told the court: “He said he took the knife to scare Mr Nunney off and it was when he was downstairs that the struggle ensued.

“He said that he was acting in self defence.

“However, we suggest this defendant's acts were grossly disproportionate to any threat that Mr Nunney may have offered to him as a result of the argument.

“This defendant suffered no injury at all.”

The victim suffered a fatal stab wound through his right lung and liver, and was also knifed in the back and across his forehead and forearm.

His nose was broken, and marks on his face matched the pattern on the sole of Mr Small’s boots, it was claimed.